On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 at 23:51 GMT, Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article <32e0g1F3kgu42U3@individual.net>,
>  "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
> The problem with using last is that, at least on Solaris, if you recycle
> wtmp regularly on a busy system, last will have only the entries since
> it was recycled.  lastlog has a single entry for every login, IIRC.
> It's updated as that account logins in and it's what's printed when you
> login to a terminal session on Solaris "Last login: <date> from <remote>"

last -f /var/log/wtmp.0
last -f /var/log/wtmp.1
.......

You can keep as many files as you want; you can change the
frequency of rotation, etc....

> Since this is AIX, there may be differences.  I leave that to the OP to
> iron out.
>


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